Experienced Veterinary Nurse

The opportunity

Tableland Veterinary Service is seeking an EXPERIENCED, QUALIFIED VETERINARY NURSE to join our Malanda clinic. This role has emerged as we continue to increase the nursing support for our veterinary team and expand our support teams across our clinics.

Our nursing team are the engine room of our clinic, ensuring that all of our patients receive the care, attention and love that they deserve. They are responsible for maintaining our clinical areas in an organised, tidy and meticulously clean fashion, and supporting our veterinary team to deliver best practice veterinary science.

The work of our nursing team is divided into three key roles: hospital, surgery and consulting. Our team rotate through these areas to ensure that their skills are well rounded, and that they are constantly being challenged by new and exciting work. They are also trained to assist our customer care team on reception, and from time to time will fill in on our front desk, although this is not a routine part of the role.

This role may be perfect for you if…

1. …you feel inspired to support a team of dedicated professionals to achieve their best at work.

2. …you want to help create a workplace that is recognised as one of the best in Australia.

3. …you want to make a difference in the lives of our team, clients and their animals.

4. …you want to be surrounded by people who love their work.

5. …you highly value the opportunity to learn and grow, both as a leader and a well-rounded person.

The day to day role

Our nursing team work both behind the scenes and on the front line, meaning that they need to provide outstanding customer care, empathy and compassion, while also remaining passionate advocates for the health and welfare of our patients and working efficiently. They play both a support role to our veterinary team, and also a lead role in delivering a number of para-professional services, including providing advice on nutrition, parasite control, preventative health programs and animal behaviour. Some of these roles include:

• Providing memorable customer experiences, compassionate support and assistance to clients on the phone and when visiting the clinic;
• Provide care for hospital patients including monitoring clinical signs, medicating inpatients, clean and sterilise cages and communicate with owners and colleagues on patient status;
• Admit patients for surgery, prepare the surgery theatre, monitor anaethaesia, recover patients from surgery and provide discharge information and post-operative care to clients;
• Ensuring that clinic hygiene and biosecurity procedures and maintained;
• Support the veterinary team in diagnostic work up, including restraining animals, assisting with radiographs, taking pathology samples, running tests and preparing medications.

Our ideal candidate

• A bubbly, outgoing personality who can relate to people of all walks of live
• A love of animals and caring, compassionate nature
• Someone who solves problems and has a 'can do' attitude
• A desire to make life easier for your colleagues and clients
• Experience in a veterinary, clinical nursing, or customer service role
• A working knowledge of Windows based software programs
• NOTE: Candidates must hold at Certificate 2 in Animal Studies, Certificate 4 in Veterinary Nursing, Bachelor of Veterinary Technology, or have a minimum of 3 years experience working in a veterinary nursing role to be considered.

About Tableland Veterinary Service

Our purpose is to support better lives for the people, animals and communities of rural North Queensland with advanced veterinary science and compassionate care.

Tableland Veterinary Service is a family owned group of mixed practice veterinary clinics across Far North Queensland. Our clinics are located in Malanda, Atherton and Ravenshoe on the Atherton Tableland, along with clinics in Charters Towers, Edmonton and Weipa. We love our community and our work, but most of all we love to support each other and help one another succeed.

Our team care for the needs of all animals, from dairy and beef herds, to working dogs and horses, elite performance horses, cherished pets, and wildlife. We have over 60 staff and have a culture of positivity, dependability and humility. We care for one another like family, and love to celebrate each other's wins.

Our Core Values

The TVS Spirit is built on a foundation of five guiding principles - our Core Values. These principles are the timeless beliefs that guide our decisions, inform the way we relate to one another and behave. They underpin the way we recruit, review and reward our team, and are considered every time we need to make an important decision.

The TVS Core Values are:

Be dependable

• Follow through on promises.

• Take ownership.

• Make life easier for those around you.

Solve problems

• Look. Think. TAKE ACTION.

• Progress before perfection.

• Embrace new challenges.

Stay humble

• Take the job seriously, not yourself.

• Treasure constructive feedback.

• Challenge your own opinions.

Show love

• Care for one another like family.

• Assume best intentions.

• Strive to understand others.

Choose positivity

• Express gratitude and appreciation often.

• Celebrate each others wins.

• Laugh, smile and have fun

The position details

• Full time position

• 4 days per week

• Pay range - $27-$35 per hour, depending on experience

• Workday from 7:30am to 5:00pm with /2 hour lunch break

• Some Saturday morning work required